opening a local folder browser from web browser

I know this shouldn't be as hard as I have found it to be, but I could use some help on a problem. I have used, and am familiar with the FileUpload control, works great.

But now I have a need to allow the user to choose a folder path without selecting a file. Basically a folder location, on the local hard drive where my code will read the files located in the choosen folder and process against them.

I am drawing a total blank and my web searches are not giving me what I am looking for.

I initiallially developed this with a Windows FolderDialogBrowser control, but it will not run on the web server, likely a security issue, and I can not change it.

Re: opening a local folder browser from web browser

It seems you are mostly correct. For security purposes I guess, it is impossible to process against files on the local PC. I changed this process slightly to allow the users to place the files on the web server, were the web app can process data against
them.

It seems to work fairly well now. It takes a bit more set up on the user side but the end result is that the web data is being exported to the access dbs and they can inturn be deployed as needed.